Healthy Breakfast Avocado Smoothie (For Hair Skin and Weight Gain)

Sooo...This is Day 1 of my Healthy Eating and Happy Hair Growing Journey (lol, I know i'm lame) . Anywho, This morning, I decided to put the Avocado's that I purchased to use!!  Avocado's are great for healthy eating!! Especially in smoothies!! " Avocados provide nearly 20 essential nutrients, including fiber, potassium, Vitamin E, B-vitamins and folic acid. They also act as a "nutrient booster" by enabling the body to absorb more fat-soluble nutrients, such as alpha and beta-carotene and lutein, in foods that are eaten with the fruit."  So Avocado's are going to work to my advangate in a numerous amount of ways!! Eating these will allow my body to absorb more of the fat-soluble nutrients that I need!!  And it's high in fat (unsaturated fat) the average Avocado has over 300 calories!!

These are the ingredients I used in my smoothie

1/2 Avocado (I'm going to use the other half to deep condition my hair, Avocado's are VERY moisturizing!!)

1 Kiwi

1 Banana

1 Fruit Buddy

8 Ounces of Milk

1 Blender

The fruit (aside from the Avocado) that you choose to use , is totally up to you!! I just like Banana's and Kiwi's!! But you're welcome to play around with any fruits that you like :-)  Some people even add nuts!

Weekly Dishes

So I have finally realized why I was losing weight. I wasn't eating nearly enough calories with all the daily activities I was doing!! My body (energy) suffered!!  I was so tired and sleepy all the time!!

I've become enamored with cooking!!  I'm a beginner in the kitchen but I love trying out new recipes! Especially now that i'm getting better!!!  Now I make a weekly meal plan because this makes it super easy for me to make sure to eat and COUNT my calories!!!  Here are a few pictures of my dishes, if I used a recipe I will post a link to that as well!! I am a beginner so most of them aren't very pretty but they taste amazing!!  One of my favorite blogs that many of the things I cook come from is Diva's Can Cook !!  She has amazing recipes!!

Every weekend I make her Banana Bread (this past weekend I made them into muffins) they are delicious and it's great and convenient for me to make it over the weekend so that I can have it for breakfast during the weekdays.  Breakfast is sooo important and many of times I don't eat it because I don't have time.  This eliminates that!

Shrimp Scampi.  This was something quick that I threw together , when the fridge was low on things to cook!!

Yummy Parmesan Zucchini 

Paired it with Steak!! We also had a delicious mashed potato!!

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings. Omg. This was delicious! It was a very big pot that lasted about 2 days!! This is a GREAT hearty meal! Recipe HERE!!!!

Yummy Yummy Peach Cobbler!!! I don't cook this often, but when I do. OMG. I think it lasts ONE day!

Cheesy Ravioli.  I enjoyed this so much! It was super easy, and reminded me of lasagna.  I had this with Salad and Garlic Bread. BTW the picture is right before it went in the oven.  Forgot to take a picture of it after!! Smh silly me!! Recipe Cheesy Ravioli Recipe <<<<

This is Coq Au Vin . A recipe that I got from Cooking With Val !! Just recently found her blog!! Love her recipes and will be using more!! I paired this Wine Stewed Chicken with Mashed potatoes which were wayyyy too runny lol!! I mashed them a bit too much, then to add insult to injury I love love love gravy so added quite a bit over my potatoes which made it more runny. But guess what? It taste like heaven!  The Sauted Asparagus were also to die for!

Can't forget my homemade GREEN smoothie! Yum!  I usually use Spinach as the base (adding avocado when available too), and from there I add a mix of frozen fruit! I do frozen because it makes the smoothie good and cold and SWEET. I promise you , you can NOT taste the spinach !!

Glue-less Cap Lace Wig Protective Style And Make Up Forever HD Review

   This is really my first protective style of the year!!  Before I was wearing Closures and Frontals or Lace Wigs.  These were getting a big cumbersome, because I could not get to my leave-out area as I needed too. I decided to adopt Glue-less Lace Wigs and Weaves where i'm able to do leave-out (AKA getting something close to my own texture!!).  I wore my Glue-less Lace Wig for 6 weeks and loved it.  I love the fact I no longer had to use adhesives.  The alcohol from removing the adhesives was really taking a tole on my skin and hairline.  So i'm super excited that now I have alternatives!! 

This was an Indian Remy, Glue-less Cap Lace Wig. So I did NOT have to use any glue. It had combs and adjustable straps so I was able to take it off as I pleased.

Check out the photos below!! 

For the MUFE HD foundation review check out the video below!!

La Vida Clipless Curling Iron Review

   Where did I purchase?

http://stores.ebay.com/Electronic-Closeouts/Personal-Care-/_i.html?_fsub=10831798&_sid=87837708&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

They have quite a few cool styling products.  I'm going to purchase a few more!

OCC Lip Tar Review / Podcast

http://allyjaetv.podbean.com

Check out my podcast on my latest beauty buy, OCC Lip Tar.

"Blogging Between the Lines"

   I enjoyed reading Dana Hulls article Blogging Between the Lines because she pointed out very important points in reference to today's style of blogging.  I have always wanted to create a personal blog but every time that I do I never keep up with it.  It's interesting reading Dana Hull's article as she points out that blogging isn't just personal anymore!  There is a blog online for practically any and everything.  I frequent celebrity gossip blogs most often to keep up with the latest info on my favorite celebrities.  Blogs have sparked the interest , according to Dana Hull, of even news reporters.  Writers are finding out that people sometimes frequent blogs more so than they do paper newspapers.  I can understand how it can be difficult for those people, like news reporters and other writers, to keep their blogs objective, when blogs are such subjective things.  To me, your blog is a place where you can practice your freedom of speech and share your opinion on different subjects with the world. I definitely think that when a professional such as a news writer is creating and posting on a blog on behalf of the company they work for, they should be held by the same sourcing standards as print edition work.  This is because it's so easy to type something up and hit submit, and the information that is typed could or could not be true.  I do not rely on blogs for pertinent information for this reason.  Blogs are a pastime and mostly for fun reading to me.